Did you know? We like to refer to ourselves as an ambitious dredging and marine contractor. There’s a reason for that. In your career at Van Oord, you’ll quickly familiarise yourself with our challenging projects. Get started building your future!Did you know?
- That Palm Deira, one of the palm islands that we are building in Dubai, is the largest artificial island in the world?
- That HAM 318 is the largest trailing suction hopper dredger in the world?
- That flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes we are building now, will be world's largest flexible fallpipe vessel?
- That HAM 318 has a hopper capacity of 33,000 m3, enough to fill about 2 football stadiums with a sand wall of 3.5 metres ?
- That The World is made up of 300 islands and contains enough sand to construct a 2m wide, 4 m high wall of sand encircling the earth?
- That we worked on the Prinses Amalia Wind Park off the Dutch coast, which lies deeper in the ocean than any other wind farm in the world?
- That the Prinses Amalia Wind Park generates 120 megawatts of electricity, enough to supply 125,000 households?
- That we will be constructing another four wind farms up to 2011, good for another 1500 megawatts of green energy, enough to supply 1.5 million households with electricity?
And did you also know that Van Oord has in 2008:
- an annual turnover of EUR 2 billion?
- 4,500 employees worldwide?
- 25 branches all over the world?
- 75 trainee places every year?
- 20 graduation project places every year?
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This figures shows that we are in an excellent shape, in many respects. Ou
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